Cagan (third from left) at a meeting between Robert Gates and Stephen Smith, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs

Cagan (third from left) with Gates (left)

Debra L. Robert Michael Gates (born September 25 1943) is currently serving as the 22nd United States Secretary of Defense. Stephen Francis Smith (born 12 December 1955) is the Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs. In the Government of Australia, the Minister for Foreign Affairs is responsible for overseeing the international diplomacy section of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Cagan (born March, 1954) has been affiliated with a variety of U. S. foreign policy projects. Foreign Policy is a bimonthly American Magazine founded in 1970 by Samuel P She also acts as close advisor to United States president George W. Bush. George Walker Bush ( born July 6 1946 is the forty-third and current President of the United States.

Personal

Cagan has in the past lived in Kensington, Maryland^[1]. Kensington is a town in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States.

Career

Government positions

• Senior Counselor for Coalition Affairs. ^[2]

• Political advisor for SACT and USJFCOM. ^[3]

• Senior Coordinator for Nuclear and Nonproliferation Policy, Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs, Department of State, United States, 1996.

• Director of Policy and Regional Affairs within the State Department for Russia and the Newly Independent States, 1998. ^[4][5]

• Office Director, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, the State Department, 2001.

• Political Advisor to Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, 2005.

• Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for Coalition and Multinational Operations (to Defence Secretary Robert Gates), 2007. ^[6]

Controversies

Position on Iran

Cagan gained notoriety after the Daily Mail newspaper claimed that during a meeting with visiting British MPs, she stated that "I hate all Iranians. The Daily Mail is a British newspaper currently published in a tabloid format " She then purportedly accused Britain of "dismantling" the Anglo-US-led coalition in Iraq by pulling troops out of Basra too soon. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Iraq topics. Basra ( BGN: AlBasrah also called Basorah Abillah and Uruk or IRAQ The name that British colony has adopted for Basra ^[7]

Advocacy

An advocate of increased westernisation in ex-Soviet states, Cagan met Georgian Defence Minister David Kezerashvili on 18 July 2007 to discuss bilateral cooperation. Westernization or occidentalization (from occident, see wiktionary) is a process whereby societies come under or adopt the Western A soviet (сове́т, "council" originally was a workers' local council in late Imperial Russia. Georgia ( საქართველო, Sakartvelo) is a Transcontinental country in the Caucasus region situated at the dividing line between Cagan was one of the first to establish the Georgia Train and Equip Program (GTEP), which has allegedly improved the process of development in Georgia’s professional army. The Georgia Train and Equip Program ( GTEP) was an American -sponsored 18-month $64-million plan designed to increase the capabilities of the Georgian She has also visited and conversed with Albanian^[8] and ethnic Macedonian^[9] officials, on behalf of the United States. The Macedonians (Македонци transliterated Makedonci) also referred to as Macedonian Slavs --> --> are a South Slavic people

External links

• Cagan in the October 2, 2007, United States Department of State Telephone Directory in .pdf format
• Report in the Washington Post, July 27, 2006, on home sales, including Cagan's purchase of a Washington, D.C., residence for $1.16 million
• Debra L Cagan's participation in Project Vinca as recorded in 'Lessons for Securing Civil Nuclear Material Stockpiles'

References